to applaud
/əˈpɫɔd/
verbto clap one's hands as a sign of approval
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1. I applaud this 15-year-old boy.
2. The children would applaud.
3. People in different countries also applaud differently.
4. The clerk in the Tank involuntarily applauded.
5. Thousands of miles away his audience applauded.
to bat
/ˈbæt/
verbto quickly open and close one's eyes to attract attention
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1. You can see that there's this rebound, of the bat, it kind of goes backwards, and ignites the cartridges.
2. Meanwhile, bats usually have just one baby at a time.
3. So bats would experience super-inflammation all the time!
4. Bats eat mosquitoes without any risks.
5. Bats are like the Daredevil of the animal kingdom.
to glance
/ˈɡɫæns/
verbto briefly look at someone or something
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1. Keeps-- the blows glance off it.
2. A high school girl is glancing at me.
3. A glance is a quick look.
4. Now glance back at Thai.
5. Do glance at them for the purpose of your driver's test.
to spy
/ˈspaɪ/
verbto secretly observe someone
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1. - None of us are spies.
2. 'spied' not 'spy-ed' Okay rule number three.
3. - I spy a bird.
4. It spies the peregrine.
5. Spy your prize.
to articulate
/ɑɹˈtɪkjəˌɫeɪt/, /ɑɹˈtɪkjəɫət/
verbto clearly and verbally express what one thinks or feels
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1. And this book actually articulates a very consistent thesis.
2. I felt revulsion and disgust, and yet I continued to turn the pages, I would not have known how to articulate it.
3. Even his ankles articulate now.
4. Articulating your military and career experience.
5. Articulate Your Values!
to bind
/ˈbaɪnd/
verbto tie someone or something to not let them escape or move freely
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1. "Bound keys only."
2. Heme binds oxygen to a ferrous iron in its center.
3. Thus, a molecule of hemoglobin can bind up to four molecules of oxygen.
4. Citrate, or citric acid, binds with calcium.
5. The soluble fiber in chickpeas binds with the bad cholesterol in the digestive system.
to cling
/ˈkɫɪŋ/
verbto tightly hold on to someone or something
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1. - Just clinging to him.
2. The Smart Lasso tool will cling to the edges.
3. The water still clings to the board.
4. All that bacteria will cling to your mug or cup.
5. The oxpeckers cling to the buffalo day and night.
to craft
/ˈkɹæft/
verbto skilfully make something, particularly with the hands
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1. Make craft.
2. Make craft.
3. Crafting the sales pitch.
4. Crafting the video sales letter.
5. Instead, craft your environment.
to creep
/ˈkɹip/
verbto move slowly and quietly, especially in order to avoid being noticed or to approach someone unnoticed
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1. Finally, first light crept in.
2. The schwa creeps up everywhere in American English.
3. Day creeps down.
4. Ugh, this thing creeps up my legs!
5. Creeps are polarizing.
to circulate
/ˈsɝkjəˌɫeɪt/
verb(of gas, air, or liquid) to constantly move around inside a closed area
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1. These guys, these electrons, these pi electrons can circulate all around.
2. Online rumors circulate frequently.
3. Meese himself is circulating organization charts and memos.
4. While one, the systemic heart circulates blood around the body and vital organs.
5. Many grocery stores will circulate their best deals and their most aggressive discounts in the middle of the month.
to descend
/dɪˈsɛnd/
verbto move toward a lower level
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1. A giant grapple claw descends over the trash.
2. The bankers descended on Trump Tower.
3. One by one Jonathan and his crew descended below.
4. - One eggs descends in the ovum.
5. Another tear descended.
to divert
/daɪˈvɝt/, /dɪˈvɝt/
verbto cause someone or something to change direction
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1. A firefly diverts oxygen to its light cells through its tracheoles.
2. Blood is diverted away from the skin and towards internal organs.
3. Divert the pressure.
4. Luckily, the plans were diverted.
5. Those natural arcs divert liquid around your eyes to the side of your face.
to exert
/ɪɡˈzɝt/
verbto put force on something or to use power in order to influence someone or something
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1. Exert the exact same amount--
2. Costs also exerts a chill.
3. Our community exerts remarkable leadership already in areas like neuroscience, epigenetics, bioinformatics, immunology, stem cell research, global health, and many other domains.
4. The outer regions of the star exert a pressure inward.
5. So that ski lift exerts a force.
to filter
/ˈfɪɫtɝ/
verbto pass gas, liquid, light, etc. through something in order to remove unwanted substances
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1. A sponge filters water through the walls of its hollow body.
2. The reed beds filter out minerals in the water.
3. The reed beds filter out minerals in the water.
4. Filters is pretty basic.
5. Filters are absolutely everywhere.
to forge
/ˈfɔɹdʒ/
verbto make something from a piece of metal object by heating it until it becomes soft and then beating it with a hammer
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1. Our chains are forged.
2. Nature forges her way ahead at the very gates of the titan of ice.
3. Nature forges her way ahead at the very gates of the titan of ice.
4. Forging checks.
5. Or these gorgeous hand forged salad tongs.
to grasp
/ˈɡɹæsp/
verbto take and tightly hold something
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1. Can other animals grasp that relationship?
2. The baby grasps the toy for the first time.
3. The baby grasps the toy for the first time.
4. Grasp the bar with an overhand grip, hands about shoulder-width apart.
5. Grasp the knife in your dominant hand.
to grip
/ˈɡɹɪp/
verbto firmly hold something
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1. Chinese small business is gripping the continent.
2. Fresh protests gripped Myanmar's largest cities in a sixth day of outrage over the military takeover.
3. Powerful claws grip the bark like grappling hooks.
4. A new threat gripped the Western imagination.
5. Thanks to these holes, the outlet grips the plug more firmly.
to preside
/pɹiˈzaɪd/, /pɹɪˈzaɪd/
verbto have or act in an authoritative role in a ceremony, meeting, etc.
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1. Judge Satan presiding.
2. Four presided as speakers of those houses.
3. Mayor Flynn presided.
4. A great sacred mapú, as they call the ceibas, presides over the lakú of the KONGO.
5. Your honorable Judge Arthur Vandelay presiding.
to resemble
/ɹiˈzɛmbəɫ/, /ɹɪˈzɛmbəɫ/
verbto have the same appearance, quality, or attribute as something or someone else
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1. -I resemble that remark.
2. Our portfolio resembles that win.
3. The elongation of the skulls resembles practices of ancient tribes in many parts of the world.
4. Characterized as a counterattack, the 1921 plan more accurately resembles a preemptive war.
5. The mixture should resemble the consistency of a daiquiri.
to simulate
/ˈsɪmjəˌɫeɪt/, /ˈsɪmjəɫət/
verbto match the same qualities as someone or something
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1. The experiment simulated Mars’s gravity, atmosphere, and radiation.
2. This one simulates combat for a ball turret gunner.
3. Two fingers simulates the right click or secondary click.
4. The experiment simulated the 23rd to the 27th week of a human pregnancy.
5. So basically simulate a green screen.
to slam
/ˈsɫæm/
verbto forcefully shut or close a door, lid, or other object
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1. Women be slamming.
2. Or slam a door.
3. Never slam your desk in court.
4. I slammed the door.
5. - I slammed the door.
to stun
/ˈstən/
verbto temporarily render an animal or person unconscious or immobile, often by hitting them on the head or using an electrical shock
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1. This announcement stunned the audience.
2. I stunned that armoire.
3. That wall stuns some people.
4. The legionaries were stunned.
5. The Bonobo's abilities have stunned scientists around the world.
to unify
/ˈjunəˌfaɪ/
verbto become whole or united
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1. Unify this country.
2. Unify all things in your life.
3. Solid earthy tones unify upholstery.
4. Solid earthy tones unify upholstery.
5. They unify the whole body.
to utilize
/ˈjutəˌɫaɪz/
verbto put to effective use
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1. The second technique is known as static rappel, where recruits utilize the tower's wooden face to perform a controlled descent.
2. Quick note, two-player games don't utilize the lotus tiles.
3. Utilizing pseudoscience.
4. Decluttering utilizes your decision-making and problem-solving skills.
5. Utilize speed reading exercises.
to tempt
/ˈtɛmpt/
verbto feel the desire to do something
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1. The darkness also tempts the carnivores out of their hiding places.
2. The darkness also tempts the carnivores out of their hiding places.
3. Political disruptors are tempting voters away from the UK's two big main parties.
4. This guy's name is TEMPT.
5. TEMPT was one of the foremost graffiti artists in the 80s.
to vanish
/ˈvænɪʃ/
verbto suddenly disappear in an inexplicable way
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1. Not long after, Harris’s pregnancy vanished.
2. Vanishing cream or a tooth-loosener?
3. Vanishing water trick.
4. Vanishing water trick.
5. - Vanished.
to weave
/ˈwiv/
verbto make a carpet, basket, or other fabric item by interlacing threads in different yet specific directions by hand or a special machine
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1. It weaves a ball of silk on a branch.
2. Tiny roads weave between the old houses and castles.
3. Many women in this area weave traditional cloth.
4. Weaving together the old traditions of fishing, canning and trading.
5. The women used to weave the fabrics for the tents and the rugs for their houses.
to yield
/ˈjiɫd/
verb(of a farm or an industry) to grow or produce a crop or product
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1. After a certain point, the added weight no longer yields additional range.
2. The high yield market is now at bubble levels.
3. Japanese companies also made major innovations in manufacturing that yielded low production costs and strong, consistent product quality.
4. Fats yield more energy per unit mass than carbohydrates.
5. Six full weeks of tireless searching would yield not a single sign of the mini-woodsman.
to regain
/ɹɪˈɡeɪn/
verbto get something back, particularly a quality or ability, after losing it
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1. The city never regained its black majority population.
2. Regain control of the cottage!
3. Regain my composure here.
4. The muskox have regained the advantage.
5. Regaining your bearings.
to pioneer
/ˌpaɪəˈnɪɹ/
verbto be the first one to do, use, invent, or discover something
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1. What species pioneered this style of locomotion?
2. I pioneered that technique.
3. A different research group has pioneered these even smaller peanut-shaped magnetic particles.
4. Jules Verne pioneered the adventure-driven romantic sci-fi opera.
5. These animals are pioneers.
to enrich
/ɛnˈɹɪtʃ/, /ɪnˈɹɪtʃ/
verbto enhance the quality of something, particularly by adding something to it
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1. uh, enrich your life, Ray?
2. They enriched these Lysandrian creatures.
3. Indian Americans enrich every aspect of our national life.
4. But, definitely, diversity just enriched the program.
5. Five enrich the child's experience with new sensations.
to notify
/ˈnoʊtəˌfaɪ/
verbto officially let someone know something
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1. They notified the Korean government.
2. Notify transporter room.
3. "Notify the president."
4. The school also notified the police.
5. The manager of the storage unit then notified the family.
to maximize
/ˈmæksəˌmaɪz/
verbto increase something to the highest possible level
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1. This clever tactic maximized the efficient output of their limited resources and energies.
2. Officials can maximize pollution reduction by planting trees where population density and air pollution overlap.
3. Also, reusable spacecraft would maximize profit.
4. Maximize the greatest happiness of the greatest number.
5. Maximize a small kitchen with these tips for the most functional layout.
to minimize
/ˈmɪnəˌmaɪz/
verbto reduce something to the lowest possible degree or amount, particularly something unpleasant
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1. Minimizing a window.
2. Minimize Oily Roots:
3. So minimize distractions.
4. Minimize your fuel costs.
5. So, minimize direct sunlight.
to log
/ˈɫɔɡ/
verbto officially document all the information or events that have taken place, particularly on a plane or ship
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1. Log the sample results.
2. So log p of x.
3. Boltzmann constant times log
4. Also log sheets, trip sheets, those types of things.
5. Answers logged?
to insult
/ˈɪnˌsəɫt/, /ˌɪnˈsəɫt/
verbto disrespect someone by doing or saying something
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1. Insulting disabilities.
2. Rickles insulted me.
3. This man is insulting our king and our whole country.
4. Insulting my orchids
5. Never insult a guest.
to confine
/kənˈfaɪn/
verbto keep someone or something within limits of different types, such as subject, activity, area, etc.
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1. Hundreds of people are confined inside.
2. Your task is confined to that.
3. Second, the sand is confined.
4. These guys confined their surgery to fairly superficial injuries.
5. Or confined.
to imprison
/ˌɪmˈpɹɪzən/
verbto put someone in prison or keep them somewhere and not let them go
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1. Huge numbers of people were imprisoned after that massive political crackdown.
2. Slaves were already imprisoned.
3. These limiting beliefs imprison many people into a downward spiral of failure.
4. Finally, its last owner was imprisoned for bad business practices.
5. - Imprisoned by it.
to drown
/ˈdɹaʊn/
verbto die from being under water too long
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1. Often people drowned.
2. Farm animals drowned.
3. Obviously, one of us drowned.
4. A family drowned?
5. 40 people drowned.
to dispose
/dɪˈspoʊz/
verbto put someone or something in a specific order or position
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1. Don't dispose.
2. Dispose responsibly.
3. So they disposed of that quite easily.
4. He then disposed of her remains.
5. In that time, surveillance video, Taylor's other clothing, and property were disposed of.
